| bluff | (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bold, sheer |
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| (adjective) bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured | - |
| (noun) the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards | Synonyms: four flush |
| (noun) pretense that your position is stronger than it really is | - |
| (noun) a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion) | - |
| (verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is | - |
| (verb) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand | Synonyms: bluff out |
| breadstuff | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: bread, staff of life |
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| (noun) flour or meal or grain used in baking bread | - |
| buff | (adjective) of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather | - |
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| (noun) an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring) | Synonyms: buffer |
| (noun) a medium to dark tan color | Synonyms: caramel, caramel brown, raw sienna, yellowish brown |
| (noun) bare skin | - |
| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: devotee, fan, lover |
| (noun) a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen | - |
| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: burnish, furbish |
| (verb) strike, beat repeatedly | Synonyms: buffet |
| chuff | (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: huff, puff |
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| crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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| cuff | (noun) the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg | Synonyms: turnup |
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| (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: handcuff, handlock, manacle |
| (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
| (verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
| dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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| (noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
| duff | (noun) a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron | Synonyms: plum duff |
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| dyestuff | (noun) a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair | Synonyms: dye |
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| earcuff | (noun) a non-pierced earring of varying size (i.e. small wrap or hook big enough to hang over the whole ear and dangle) worn on the rim of the ear. | Synonyms: ear cuff, ear hook earring, ear wrap |
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| earmuff | (noun) either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather | - |
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| fluff | (noun) a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) | - |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) any light downy material | - |
| (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: tease |
| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: ruffle |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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| (noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
| gruff | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: hoarse, husky |
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| (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
| guff | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, hogwash, rot |
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| handcuff | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handlock, manacle |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, manacle |
| huff | (noun) a state of irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: miff, seeing red |
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| (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, puff |
| (verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: snort |
| luff | (noun) the act of sailing close to the wind | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast | - |
| (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
| muff | (noun) (sports) dropping the ball | Synonyms: fumble |
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| (noun) a warm tubular covering for the hands | - |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, screw up, spoil |
| (verb) fail to catch, as of a ball | - |
| overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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| powderpuff | (noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: puff |
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| puff | (adjective) gathered for protruding fullness | Synonyms: puffed |
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| (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, pull |
| (noun) forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth | Synonyms: blow |
| (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, comforter, quilt |
| (noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: powderpuff |
| (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, ottoman, pouf, pouffe |
| (noun) exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) | - |
| (noun) a light inflated pastry or puff shell | - |
| (noun) a short light gust of air | Synonyms: puff of air, whiff |
| (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, heave, pant |
| (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, huff |
| (verb) to swell or cause to enlarge | Synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up |
| (verb) speak in a blustering or scornful manner | - |
| (verb) praise extravagantly | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, draw |
| (verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: whiff |
| (verb) make proud or conceited | - |
| rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: slight |
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| (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: repulse, snub |
| (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: repel, snub |
| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, repel, repulse |
| ruff | (noun) (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit | Synonyms: trumping |
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| (noun) common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season | Synonyms: Philomachus pugnax |
| (noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: choker, neck ruff, ruffle |
| (noun) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | Synonyms: frill |
| (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: trump |
| scruff | (noun) the back side of the neck | Synonyms: nape, nucha |
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| scuff | (noun) the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet) | - |
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| (noun) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel | Synonyms: mule |
| (verb) poke at with the foot or toe | - |
| (verb) mar by scuffing | - |
| (verb) get or become scuffed | - |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: drag |
| snuff | (adjective) snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown | Synonyms: chukker-brown, mummy-brown, snuff-brown |
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| (noun) sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
| (noun) finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose | - |
| (noun) a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time | - |
| (noun) the charred portion of a candlewick | - |
| (verb) inhale (something) through the nose | - |
| (verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuffle |
| stuff | (noun) miscellaneous unspecified objects | - |
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| (noun) unspecified qualities required to do or be something | - |
| (noun) a critically important or characteristic component | - |
| (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense |
| (noun) information in some unspecified form | - |
| (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: clobber |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: material |
| (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: farce |
| (verb) fill tightly with a material | - |
| (verb) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting | - |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out |
| (verb) cram into a cavity | - |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, lug |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust |
| tuff | (noun) hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash | Synonyms: tufa |
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| unstuff | (verb) cause to become unblocked | Synonyms: loosen up |
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| woodruff | (noun) any plant of the genus Asperula | - |
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| (noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister |